Slogans are for people who need to be told what to think.
In the past week, Dominic Cummings, once-senior advisor to the UK government, caused quite a stir with his vengeful testimony against his former colleagues. Part of this testimony raveled around the handling of COVID19 response and introduction of lockdowns. And in this part,he touched upon not only his former colleagues, but also Professor Sunetra Gupta who is providing a different point of view to the events in the clip below.
Personally, I am putting emphasis on two things within this clip; first one is the honest admission by Professor Gupta where and how she was careless when publicly speaking about the pandemic (a lot of her colleagues could learn a bit of humility from Professor).
The second thing is "herd immunity threshold".
Now, for the most part people have been discussing herd immunity threshold, as if it is a constant number of ~70 to 80%. However, one can sense Gupta's frustration while trying to explain that the threshold for seasonal disease, such as COVID19, varies ...
This was a very late recording contrasting two news articles about Omicron - so called "Covid super-strain".
I know I haven't been around lately...work...life...However, the 12-years-old clip popped into my feed and I wanted to share it. The reason? This clip provides the great basic understanding into what are the issues with so-called "evidence" related to anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and the lack of logic when it comes to the interpretation of such evidence. The sad reality is that even after 12 years from this clip, we are still forced to endure nonsensical conclusions that hurricanes hitting Florida are caused by big bad climate change.
The mainstream media is doubling down on the alarmism, and it is not hard to guess why. However, to be fair, consider my little observation an educated guess, an opinion, rather than the fact. Time will show whether I am right.
(1) 'Climate change affects everyone': Europe battles wildfires in intense heat by Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/spain-portugal-battle-wildfires-heatwaves-scorch-southern-europe-2022-07-17/)
If you spent time in Southern Europe, Mediterranean, during summer season - July and August in particular - you probably know that heat-induced wildfires are nothing new. In fact, they are quite common and remarkably devastating for the affected communities, and I have witnessed several in person. Most of the time, the wildfires occur due to heat igniting grasses, especially in the areas where there are broken glass or broken bottles. The glass serves as an amplifier for the sun rays, especially, in the vicinity of dry grasses, or even dry pine needles, and as ...
